Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog

Some command-line applications can read from stdin for use as program input.  The canonical example of this is sort.exe which sorts the list of strings given to it and prints it back out to the console: C:\Temp> type letters.txt m z a C:\Temp>...

If you have a solution that contains multiple projects it is important to know what the 'Targets' group in the Performance Explorer is used for. The PeopleTrax solution shown on the right has 4 projects, with 3 of them compiling to managed DLLs and 1...

In Visual Studio 2008, we added a feature to exclude small functions from instrumentation. A small function is a function that has very few instructions and makes no function calls (i.e. it’s a leaf). The idea behind this feature is that small functions...

While investigating a performance problem you may need to collect many Performance Reports and compare them. You can use the Performance Explorer to quickly compare two reports by: Selecting two reports. Right-clicking and choosing 'Compare Performance...